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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Promissory
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 22:43:41 -0400 (EDT)
Promissory http://www.alansondheim.org/promissory.jpg It's not as if there isn't a picture to lure you in; I might have made one from a screenshot of this very text, it would have been duplicated, letter by letter, you might have seen it as an echo or other resonant form; instead I'm at a loss, what sort of lure might work, for example something so strong that it would make you want to give up your home, your friends, your country, and go, and live in the desert, and kill people; this could be a promissory note that you would go to heaven or live eternally in a god's paradise, this very statement might do it for you, in, in the form of an image, of text, no other images are allowed, would you leave, then, now, would you wait, until the morning, what would you take, with you, do you know the journey, the danger, the morning, the evening, prayer, the prayer at midday, the people who would help you, those who would be a danger to you, those who would not help you, those who would trust you and those who would not, the desert awaits you, it reaches out, to you, with its heat, its thirst, its scorched lands, its tombs, to be destroyed, to be forgotten, it reaches out to you from town to town, market to market, cave to cave, people, waiting for you, with open arms, fearful of you, of your power, of your blade, your transmission, your signal, hordes, this is the promissory, the permission slip, the license, to leave, to worship, attain, to kill, to be killed, to attenuate, to come forth, to relieve, by night, by day, to withdraw, to cut through, to cut out, cut across, to carry, to be carried, to come, to arrive, to have arrived, to go, to be gone, to be gone